Mahler's Ninth with the National Symphony Orchestra at The Kennedy Center
If you choose to let it, Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 9 can scare you to death. Or you can let its vast scope and its ethereal beginning and ending that sandwiches raucous and even sarcastic episodes in the middle suggest a hundred other philosophical musings. Either way, the National Symphony Orchestra's long-limbed reading this week […] The post Mahler's Ninth with the National Symphony Orchestra at The Kenne…